ASK THE EXPERTS : Setting up and troubleshooting WAAS with WCCP

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Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn how to setup and troubleshoot Web Cache Communication Protocol Version (WCCP) redirection to Cisco Wide Areas Application Services (WAAS) devices with Cisco Expert Nicolas Fournier. Nicolas has worked in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center for six years where he is responsible for supporting full-time content technologies and focuses in the areas of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and TCP acceleration. He is a graduate of the Universite catholique de Louvain and holds CCIE #19944 Security certification.

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[Nicolas Fournier]

Hi David,

WCCP IPV6 support will be added in IOS 15.2(3)T which unfortunately doesn't have a committed date yet.

Regarding FTP support, are you asking if WCCP will become application aware and will be able to redirect the FTP data connection after redirecting the control channel only? If that is the case, I'm afraid the answer will be no as the other features that should be added with IPV6 should be configurable router-id as well as variable timers.

Regards,

Nicolas

[Zubair.Sayed_2]

Hi Nicolas.

We have a few WAAS devices in our environment and we currently optimize http/https traffic. We are looking at the possibility of optimizing Video on our WAN.

If this is not the right place to discuss this where can I find more information about this subject?

Regards

Zubair

[Nicolas Fournier]

Hi Zubair,

The WAAS Video Accelerator was designed to perform what you want to achieve if you are using RTSP over TCP.

You'll need to get the Video license to be able to use it but once it is done, you can enable the accelerator and you should start getting benefit from the Video AO as soon as it is optimized.

Here is how it needs to be configured:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v441/configuration/guide/policy.html#wp1067346

and here is an example of how it can be integrated with a DMS system for instance:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/contnetw/ps5680/ps6870/white_paper_C11-499858.html

Regards,

Nicolas